BACKGROUND

B.A. French, Case Western Reserve University Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude
M.A. French, Case Western Reserve University
Ph.D. French, Case Western Reserve University

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

Director of International Programs and MAIS, Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences

AREAS OF INTEREST

Twentieth Century French Literature
Literature and Philosophy
Foreign Language Pedagogy and Assessment

BOOKS

Genet's Ritual Play, "Degré Second, 6". Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1981.

Beckett's Critical Complicity: Carnival, Contestation, Tradition. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1988. Winner of the 1987 Midwest MLA Book Award.

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

"La Lutte entre carnaval et carême: Tripes d'or de Fernand Crommelynck et Magie Rouge de Michel de Ghelderode," La Revue des langues vivantes, XLIII, 1977, pp. 172-83.

"The Theater of Jean Tardieu: Experiments in the Grotesque," in Savage Comedy: Structures of Humor, ed. Kenneth White. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1978, pp. 45-57.

"Film: A Dialogue Between Beckett and Berkeley," Journal of Beckett Studies, 7 (Spring, 1982), pp. 89-100. Reprinted as "Film: Ein Dialog zwischen Beckett und Berkeley" in Samuel Beckett, Hartmut Engelhardt, ed. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1984, pp 197-210.

"La Forme In-formante: A Reconsideration of the Grotesque," Mosaic, XIV, 4 (Fall, 1981), pp. 107-21.

"Le Meuble: Tardieu's Grotesque Con-trap-tion," Stanford French Review, VI, 1 (Spring, 1982), pp. 49-64.

"In lustris scaena / Scaena inlustris," Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language Association, 16, 1 (Spring, 1983), pp. 18-33.

"Writing the Body: Qui tient le / la greffe?" Mythology, Plattsburgh Studies in the Humanities. Eds. Jurgen Kleist and Bruce Butterfield, New York: Peter Lang, 1992, pp. 147-156.

"On the Play of Nature," in Waiting for Godot and Endgame, ed. Steven Connor. New Casebooks Series. London: MacMillan Press, 1992, pp. 100-118. (An edited extract from the Endgame chapter of Beckett's Critical Complicity).